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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/06/10 07:52, Conscious User wrote:
>> On your critique: Notify-OSD is not done, but it's broadly there. The
>> API's are basically stable, and we would gladly accept patches that
>> bring it into full compliance with the specification.
>>     
> Mark, please correct me if I'm wrong. Are you saying that the DX
> team considers the current partial compliance "good enough" and full
> compliance will keep having low priority, only receiving attention
> when an external patch appears?
>
>   

No, if need be we'll circle back and put more time into Notify-OSD
later. But the spec is there, and the code is open, and so it's low
hanging fruit for a contribution that will get support with
pre-implementation calls (with Mirco, Neil or David Barth) and quick
reviews and landings if the code is good, does what's needed, and has
tests for the test suite.

The current plan is to put more work into Notify-OSD in 11.04, to
harmonise some of the visual effects there with what's been developed in
Unity and to handle things like incoming calls which cannot be done with
asyncronous, ephemeral notifications.

The biggest thing missing from Notify-OSD right now is the optimised
duration part of the spec: extending the life of long notifications, or
updated notifications, appropriately, as well as handling flooding. All
of that is specified but not implemented. Also, improving the way things
like NetworkManager use the capabilities of Notify-OSD (primarily by
using notification updates rather than serialised notifications).

Mark

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